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2018-02-15

how to fix midnight commander font in putty

If you are connecting from windows to a linux box with putty it may happen to you when you launch midnight commander that the graphical borders are rendered with odd characters the solution can be found in this article long story short:
  • right click on the putty top bar
  • select change Settings...
  • in the Putty Reconfiguration windows expand the tree structure on the left to Windows -> Translation
  • in the right pane click the Received data... drop-down list and select UTF-8
  • close and reopen midnight commander